2009/08/04 by Juan J. Merelo Guervos, Guervos, Juan J. Merelo
Computer Science · #Algorithms and Data Compression #Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research #Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE) #cs.NE
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0908.0516
Corrected version of the paper published in YAPC::EU::2009, Corporate Perl, pp 83-97
arxiv created 2009/08/04 · openalex publication_date 2009/08/04 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Algorithm::Evolutionary (A::E from now on) was introduced in 2002, after a talk in YAPC::EU in Munich. 7 years later, A::E is in its 0.67 version (past its "number of the beast" 0.666), and has been used extensively, to the point of being the foundation of much of the (computer) science being done by our research group (and, admittedly, not many others). All is not done, however; now A::E is being integrated with POE so that evolutionary algorithms (EAs) can be combined with all kinds of servers and used in client, servers, and anything in between. In this companion to the talk I will explain what evolutionary algorithms are, what they are being used for, how to do them with Perl (using these or other fine modules found in CPAN) and what evolutionary algorithms can do for Perl at large.